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[[caption-width-right:350:Not the most subtle way to win a family dispute, but still rather effective.]]

''Fatal Caper'' is the 1st episode in the 7th season of ''Recap/TalesFromTheCrypt''.

Conflict arises among a wealthy man's greedy survivors. Original air date, April 19th 1996. Staring John Kassir; Creator/NatashaRichardson; Creator/BobHoskins; Greg Wise; Creator/LesliePhillips; James Saxon.

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!!Tropes:
* AgeGapRomance: The elderly Mycroft and his younger attractive lawyer Miss Fiona Havisham. Thankfully it doesn't go very far.
* TheBadGuyWins: Lawyer Fiona Havisham who used to go by Frank Amberson before her transition, manages to eliminate her brothers, father and takes the fortune for herself.
* BoomHeadshot: How Mycroft Amberson is staged to have died from a suicide via gunshot to the head.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Justin Amberson propositions Miss Fiona Havisham, unaware that she's actually his transgender sister.
* CainAndAbel: The Amberson siblings go to great lengths trying to kill the other and secure the Amberson family fortune to himself.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/BobHoskins directed this episode and plays Redmond.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Why did Mycroft kick the youngest Frank out of his house as a child? Mycroft mentions it was because he was "sensitive" and "different". We learn just what he meant when it's revealed Frank transitioned into Fiona.
* GetOut: Mycroft's parting words to his youngest son Frank as he kicks him out of the mansion.
* HelloAttorney: Miss Fiona Havisham is a young attractive woman with long blonde hair. Being played by the late Natasha Richardson helps.
* HowWeGotHere: The episode opens with Mycroft getting shot and then proceeds to explain what happened to get to this point.
* IHaveNoSon: Mycroft ordered his youngest child Frank to pack up and leave his estate, pretty clearly due to 'Frank' being a Transgender woman.
* MediumAwareness: This is the first episode of the series to be filmed in England, a trend that would continue for the next 11 episodes. This is illustrated through the episode's prologue, with the Crypt Keeper travelling to London, and deciding to stay a little longer in the epilogue.
* MsFanservice: Miss Fiona Havisham is complimented by other men for "having a nice body".
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mycroft's opening lines at the start of the episode before his death. Also Mycroft's reaction after seeing Fiona has a penis and after TheReveal, realizes he'd nearly slept with his own son. His guilt doesn't last long as he's killed.
* SurpriseIncest: Lord Mycroft Amberson develops a flirtation with his lawyer Fiona Havisham and almost sleeps with her, unaware until the UnsettlingGenderReveal that is that she's 'Frank,' his transgender daughter. Justin also flirts with Fiona and shamelessly invites her to have sex with him, unaware of their relation.
* TomatoSurprise: The Mycrofts await the arrival of youngest Frank alongside their lawyer Miss Fiona Havisham. Turns out Frank was there all this time, as Miss Fiona Havisham.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Just as they're about to sleep together, Fiona reveals to Mycroft that she's transgender, flashing him her penis off-screen.
-->'''Mycroft:''' ''(shocked)'' Oh God...you're a fella?
* WalkingSpoiler: Miss Fiona Havisham is important to the plot.
* WhamLine: Fiona to Mycroft.
-->'''Fiona:''' Hello, Daddy.
-->'''Mycroft:''' ''({{Beat}}, realizes)'' Frank?!
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The middle son is named Evelyn.